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As COVID-19 recedes, many strident voices continue to call for ongoing restrictions — mainly on such social media platforms as Twitter. These fiercest proponents of “COVID-zero” need to acquiesce that the coronavirus is here to stay, variant upon variant. To be fair to this group, in the early days of the pandemic, they believed wholeheartedly that COVID-19 could be eliminated, as did the WHO and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Unfortunately, this was the only accepted perspective until recently.
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Well it does start with a ridiculous strawman so we know it’s a national post opinion piece. Covid zero was never the only acceptable perspective in Canada. It was rejected by Canada in everywhere but the maritimes.
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Let’s explore the “misinformation” trope: it is applied unfairly when people have used their best interpretation of the facts to arrive at a conclusion that is later disproven. These are errors, usually honest ones (recall the initial enthusiasm for chloroquine and ivermectin as COVID-19 treatments).
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This isn’t a realistic retelling of invermecyux or chloroquine. Any responsible person reporting on a early possible link had it well hedged.
So I have stopped reading the opinion piece. Does it get better?